A6M2N Rufe, 1/72 Revell,Lodela{Frog]

Another obscure kit from the cheap seats. I found this in a hobby shop which sells older kits.

Lodela’s/Revell 1/72 Nakajima Rufe, the kit date backs to the late seventies and it’s supposed to be Frog molds. A very basic kit, more basic then the old Johan kit. I used the kit decals which were made in Great Britain are in remarkably good shape. They give you a choice of a green and grey one stationed in Korea or an all grey one from Yokosuka.

Hello Robert,
Good to see these old models being build. You turned it in to a very nice model.
Just off the record, same aircraft as was carried by the large submarines!
IJN is not my specialty. Regards, Dirk / The Netherlands.

Uhhhh… actually the submarines carried a 2-seater about 1/2-2/3 the size of a Rufe, called the “Glen.” One of them was actually the only enemy airplane to ever bomb North America, dropping indendiaries in a failed attempt to set fire to a forest in the Pacific Northwest.

(No harm/no foul, the Glen is really obscure and confusing it with a Rufe is really easy to do – ask me how I learned this information. 🙂 )